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As part of the Secret Mantra exhibition at the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, the artist Le Quoc Viet will present a live action painting in front of the Student Center on Tuesday, October 21, at 12:15 p.m. Guests are invited to wear silk robes designed by the artist!
WWNY-7, based in Watertown, NY, recently ran a short story on the Cellblock Visions currently on display in the gallery.
A group of St. Lawrence University students, faculty, and staff have organized a town hall meeting entitled “How do we talk about prisons in New York State?” for Thursday, April 3, at 7:00 p.m. in the Noble Center Room 109.
Savannah Crowley ’14 and Allison Paludi ’14, both global studies majors and members of Amnesty International, will introduce a panel comprised of Natasha Haverty, journalist and producer of North Country Public Radio’s Prison Time Media Project; Rev. David Van Epps, retired state chaplain at the Ogdensburg Correctional Facility; and Lauren Melodia, campaign organizer for Milk Not Jails. Dr. Mary Jane Smith, associate professor of history, will moderate the discussion with time set aside for community members’ comments and questions.
Crowley and Paludi note that “the purpose of this event is to facilitate a community dialogue about prisons in New York State that are so economically, politically and socially important to the North Country. In consideration of prisons’ role in our society and their effects on our communities, it is vital we add local voices to a larger political conversation.”
Visitors are also encouraged to view art and prison exhibitions at the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery that will be on display in the same building through April 12, 2014: Cellblock Visions: Set Free in the Penitentiary; Photo Requests from Solitary; Milk Not Jails, and drawings by former inmate turned prison reform activist Five Mualimm-ak.
For more information, contact Savannah Crowley at smcrow10@stlawu.edu, Mary Jane Smith at msm1@stlawu.edu, or Catherine Tedford at ctedford@stlawu.edu.
NCPR has done an amazing job of reporting on the important issues of incarceration and prisons in our region; recent stories have featured visiting artist and social activist Five Mualimm-ak and curator Phyllis Kornfeld, who organized the Cellblock Visions exhibition.
Cellblock Visions will be on display in the Brush Gallery until April 12.
In coordination with the Brush Gallery and other programs on campus, SLU’s Global Studies department is holding a symposium on prison reform.
The symposium will include several events dedicated to raising awareness and facilitating conversation between North Country students, faculty, and community members on issues such as the prison industrial complex, solitary confinement, and prison reform efforts across the United States. Through these events, we hope to foster a dialogue about northern New York’s role in these larger processes, which are often missing from mainstream news coverage.
The first event is a lecture by prison reform and social justice activist Five Omar Mualimm-ak at 7:00 p.m., in Griffiths 123. Mualimm-ak’s drawings are featured as part of the Brush Gallery’s current exhibitions, which address issues of incarceration in New York State and the nation.
The symposium’s events are sponsored by SLU Amnesty International, the African American Studies Department, SAGA (Sexuality and Gender Activists), the Weave, the Brush Gallery, and North Country Public Radio’s Prison Time project.
On Tuesday morning, the Alexander String Quartet visited the gallery and played while students from Karen Gibson’s FYP (Children’s Literature and Its Life-Long Lessons) engaged in a drawing assignment. The members of the ASQ seem to enjoy interacting with students — especially Sandy Wilson (cello) and Paul Yarbrough (viola), who added historical context to the music that the group played. I forget the individual pieces that were played, but they began with Mozart and followed that with Ravel and then Britten.
On Friday morning, NCPR aired a story on the ASQ as part of its Live Music Friday series.
Yesterday, local new station WWNY aired a story about our current Adirondack-related exhibitions. Cathy gave a brief interview about the shows.
The exhibitions are on display until October 11. Visit the Gallery’s web site for more information.
Contemporary art blog Flak Photo recently featured the work of photographer Kyle Ford. The photograph selected for the site, Before the Slaughter, is from Ford’s FOREVER WILD series and appeared on June 27. A selection of Ford’s photographs will be included in The Adirondacks: One Dish, One Spoon, which will open in August here at the Brush Gallery. One Dish, One Spoon will feature a range of artworks and artifacts related to the Adirondacks, both conceptually and geographically.
More information can be found at www.kylefordphotography.com.
Kyle Ford, Before the Slaughter, The Adirondack Mountains, New York, 2012
The Brockville Arts Centre in Brockville, Ontario, is showing a selection of work from Morphographica, shown here at the gallery in 2012. The photographs will be on display from June 29 to July 31, 2013.
The exhibition, a joint art installation by two St. Lawrence University faculty members, biologist Alex Schreiber and bio-archaeologist Mindy Pitre, and Pitre’s research partner, bio-archaeologist Pamela Mayne Correia, presents photomicrographs of biological specimens, including frogs, fish and human beings. The artists selected images for their aesthetic appeal and scientific value to explore the intersection of art and science.
Additional information about Morphographica is available on the Brush Gallery site.
Top: Mindy Pitre, Bubbles. Bottom: Alex Schreiber, A wandering eye.
Installation shots of the exhibition in Brockville:
Tzintzun Aguilar Izzo ’15 is presenting an exhibition of his photographs in the hallway gallery — the exhibition opens on Friday, April 26, as do three other student-driven exhibitions. Tzintzun’s exhibition, The Pozos Art Project, is based on the work he did last summer as part of his Tanner Fellowship.
Tzintzun will present a screening of his video work on Tuesday, April 30, at 7:00 p.m. in Griffiths 123. One video gives background information about the Pozos Art Project, with interviews of Geoff Winningham and Janice Freeman, who founded the project. Also included are interviews of students involved with the project and scenes from life in the town.
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The Pozos Art Project exhibition includes work done by students that he taught over the summer while working in Mineral de Pozos, Mexico. There’s more information about the exhibition and the project that inspired it on the gallery’s web site.
But Tzintzun’s students also produced videos, learning editing and postproduction. One, Buena para Matar, a gangster micro-tale, can be seen here.
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